Summary: A compilation of essays on claiming control of your life, whether it's reducing clutter in your home or learning to say "no" without guilt. The authors share the fulfillment that comes from focusing on what matters most in your life-- your family, your friends, and even your self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This book invites the reader to jump into a selection of action poems written by people from different places and times. It gives the reader the keys needed to unlock poems. It equips the reader to explore the meanings that a poem has, and it explains the techniques poets use to create their effects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 ACTSummary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESSummary: The anthology includes a mix of genres: poems, personal narratives, letters, scholarly essays, news articles, excerpts from plays, mission statements, lyrics, and herstories looking across time, generational, and geographic boundaries. Each piece is unique. Together they open a window that reveals a range of Latina perspectives on important contemporary socio-economic-political and cultural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Sugarcane Press, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8092 LATSummary: "This fierce collection celebrates the incredible diversity in the contemporary South by featuring essays by twenty-one of the finest young writers of color living and working in the region today, who all address a central question: Who is welcome? Kiese Laymon navigates the racial politics of publishing while recording his audiobook in Mississippi. Regina Bradley moves to Indiana and grapples...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 MEASmith, Jack
Summary: A collection of avant garde films preserved by the Library of Congress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE TRESummary: "Walking and writing have always gone together. Think of the poets who walk on a rhythm for their lines and the novelists who put their characters on a path. [This volume] rounds up the most memorable walker-writers from the 1300s to the modern day, from country hikers to urban strollers, from the rationalists to the truly outlandish. All of them analyse our need to put one foot in front of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word MinshullSummary: "Do you ever say that you'll take care of yourself after you finish your to-do list? The personal, revealing stories in this book will convince you to put yourself at the top of that list. Self-care and life balance are what we all neglect most. These 101 true stories will show you how to take care of your physical and mental health. You'll be inspired by other people who have taken back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 CHISummary: Forgiveness is an amazing tool—it can transform your life in just one second if you decide that you want to use its power. There’s a reason we refer to anger, resentment, and disappointment as “baggage.” We carry it everywhere we go. We’d like nothing more than to drop it on the side of the road and forget about it. But how do we do that? How do we process the past and then leave it behind?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 CHIKurosawa, Akira
Summary: While young Sanshiro is enrolled in a jujitsu school, he also secretly studies the more spiritual art of judo; follows the stories of several female volunteer workers at an optics plant during World War II; Sanshiro becomes the target of revenge; Lord Yoshitsune and his samurai bodyguards dress as monks in order to pass through enemy territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIRSummary: "101 reasons to laugh out loud. If laughter is the best medicine, then this book is your prescription. Turn off the news and spend a few days not following current events. Instead, return to the basics -- humanity's ability to laugh at itself. Maybe you should even do a news cleanse for a few days! Hide under the covers and read these stories instead. Or read a chapter a day, or a story a day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.43 CHISummary: These eleven stories dive into asexual relationships, where couples embrace differences, defy society’s expectations, and find romantic love. In this collection is a full spectrum of asexuality in all its classifications. From contemporary fiction to fantasy, from heteroromantic to homoromantic, join these unique characters on their journey to finding the person that speaks to their hearts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Mourning Publishing 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEASummary: "In our tumultuous cultural and political climate, many Americans are finding hope and meaning in poetry and inspirational quotes, as noted by numerous media outlets such as The Atlantic, The Guardian, and NPR, and as evidenced by the frequent posting of poetry online. Like many of us, the editors at Spiegel & Grau were inspired by the shared poems, and put together this collection of poems and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810 HOWSummary: "Ice melt; sea level rise; catastrophic weather; flooding; drought; fire; infestation; species extinction and adaptation; water shortage and contamination; intensified social inequity, migration and cultural collapse. These are but some of the changes that are not only predicted for climate changing futures, but already part of our lives in Canada. Although these transformations are global and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caitlin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 RISSummary: "Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together some of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.83 TALSummary: A collection of poems and short stories from the following Michigan authors : Marty Achatz, Ellen Airgood, Robert Alexander, Julie Brooks Barbour, Sally Brunk, Jennifer Burd, Lisa Fay Coutley, Sharon Dilworth, Amber Edmondson, Chad Farries, Matthew Gavin Frank, Manda Frederick, Randall R. Freisinger, Eric Gadzinski, Steve Hamilton, Sue Harrison, Joseph Daniel Haske, Barbara Henning, Jennifer A....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 WAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Word WayKaplan, Alisha R.
Summary: "A dynamic dialogue of text and image that centers on the concept of sacrifice and the possibility of faith after the Holocaust"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: State University of New York Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 KAPNewmark, Amy.
Summary: This collection of 101 heartwarming and entertaining stories of holiday traditions, family, and goodwill will spread the wonder and joy of the holiday season. A great way to start the season. Print run 100,000.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup For The Soul Publishing 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. "Science is important because this is how we seek to discover the truth about the world. And this is what makes excellent science and nature writing essential," observes New York Times best-selling author Sy Montgomery. "Science and nature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 BESSummary: Anyone who loves this joyous time of year will love these heartwarming and entertaining stories of family bonding, holiday hijinks, community spirit, and family and religious traditions. A fantastic holiday gift and a great way to start the season!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC 2016
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1 available in Holiday Fiction, Call number: 394.2 CHISummary: Detroit is a city of stories. In this, we are rich. We begin with abundance. But while much is written about our city these hard days, it is typically meant to explain Detroit to those who live elsewhere. Much of this writing is brilliant, but our anthology, this anthology, is different: it is a collection of Detroit stories for Detroiters. Through essays, photographs, poetry, and art, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rust Belt Chic Press 2014